Positioning your monitors properly is essential to getting the most accurate performance from them and creating a true stereo image. Thanks to the SpeakerAngle app from Genelec, it’s never been easier to dial your monitors in to a perfect equilateral triangle.
Mix engineers of all experience levels are familiar with how a compressor can be used to control the transient content of various input source signals. However, a common topic of confusion is the use of compression across the complexity of an entire mix. Many would argue that applying compression to the entire mix is a […]
Part of calibrating and optimizing your studio monitors is ensuring that the input sensitivity is set to handle professional mixing and recording levels. Here’s an overview of what input sensitivity is and how to set it for your studio.
One of the best ways to learn how to produce a great sounding mix and master is to listen to other great albums. By tuning your ears to some of the best mixes that have been produced, you will sharpen your sense of arranging / mixing and learn how your monitors behave at the same time. Here are four iconic albums that are considered by many to be examples of some of the best of music recording and production. Ignore them at your peril.
Are you using your mouse too much when recording and mixing? If yes, quit wasting time. Here are two of the simplest, yet fundamental, keyboard shortcuts you ought to learn today. Without a doubt, they’ll boost your creating and mixing workflow.
One of the fastest ways to waste time in your studio is by not learning the keyboard shortcuts, or “hotkeys,” of your DAW. You might be pointing and clicking hours down the drain from your projects. That’s why we’re doing a series on the essential keyboard shortcuts for recording, mixing and mastering. In this post, we’re going to discuss markers.
Having enough headroom from recording is essential to the mixing and mastering process. Also, there’s no better way to add headroom than from recording your tracks properly at the start. Here’s why headroom matters, as well as two tips for creating headroom in your mix in the recording process.
Tracking a great piano recording is only half the battle. Once you get to the mixing process, working with piano in the context of your other instruments requires some special attention–thanks to the piano’s expansive range of tone and color. In our previous post we discussed some tips for adding EQ and compression to the acoustic piano recording in your mix. Here, we’ll talk about using reverb and panning.
The piano is one of the most versatile and expansive instruments to record and mix. It offers a massive amount of possible tones and timbres to work with. Because of this, mixing for piano can be a challenge of its own–especially when there are multiple instruments in your mix. To help you produce the best possible mix, here are some tips for adding equalization and compression to the piano in your mix.
Radio is still the dominant medium for people to listen to and discover music. Ironically, it’s also one of the worst in terms of quality. Nearly all radio stations add a significant amount of multiband compression to their playback that kills the dynamic range. To counteract this, you can make an alternative radio mix for your music. Here are three tips on how to do it.